Fall, 2024 | Department of Cell Biology & Physiology Seminar Series
CB&P Conference Room – McDonnell Science Building, 4th Floor, Room 423
* All seminars will take place on Tuesdays at 1:00 pm (CST), unless indicated otherwise.
| Date | Speaker’s Name | Affiliation | Seminar Title | Faculty Host |
September 10, 2024 | Malay Choudhury, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine | “Targeting the amino acid transporters for pulmonary fibrosis” | |
September 17, 2024 | Farners Amarganti I Riera, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor, Ob/Gyn, Washington University School of Medicine | “Regulation of Ovarian Follicle Development via Intra- and Intracellular Signaling Pathways” | |
| September 24, 2024* 3:00 PM Moore Auditorium | Thomas Schwarz, Ph.D (Erlanger-Gasser Lecture) | Professor of Neurology and Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston Children’s Hohspital, F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center | “Mitochondrial Dyamics for mRNA Transport and Neuronal Survival” | |
October 1, 2024 | Wei Yang, Ph.D. | NIH Distinguished Investigator, Mechanism of DNA Repair, Replication, and Recombination Section, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, NIH/NIDDK | “Dynamic Movement of proteins, nucleic acids and cations in DNA repair, replication and recombination (3R)” | Zhongsheng You |
October 8, 2024 | NO SEMINAR on 10/8 CBP|MCB Retreat October 10- 11, 2024 | |||
October 15, 2024 | Zhiyu Dai, Ph.D. | Associate Professor, Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine | “Introducing Lung Vascular Biology: Insights into Pulmonary Vascular Disease Mechanisms” | |
October 22, 2024 | Jessica Silva-Fisher, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Divison of Oncology, Washington University School of Medicine | “Exciting discoveries of long non-coding RNA protein interactions and RNA modifications in cancer” | |
October 29, 2024 | John Krais, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Divison of Oncology, Washington University School of Medicine | “DNA break repair and Cancer” | |
November 5, 2024 | Rui Tang, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Washington University School of Medicine | “Quantitative dissection of cancer- stroma interactions in lung cancer metastasis” | |
| November 12, 2024 | Emily Goldberg, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, UCSF | “A novel mechanism of protein acylation and its role in immune function” | Amber Stratman |
November 19, 2024 | Abby Green, M.D. | Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Divisions of Hematology-Oncology and Infectious Diseases, Washington University School of Medicine | “Exploiting mutational processes in cancer for the therapeutic benefit” | |
November 26, 2024 | NO SEMINAR – Thanksgiving Week November 28, 2024 | |||
| December 3, 2024 | Lan Yang Ph.D. | Edwin H. and Florence G. Skinner Professor, Preston M. Green Department of Electrical & Systems Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis | “Leveraging Whispering-Gallery-Mode Optical Resonators for Biomedical Applications: Ultrasensitive and Label-Free Detection of Nanoparticles and Cells” | David W. Piston |
| December 10, 2024 | Adam Frost, M.D., Ph.D. | Principal Investigator, Altos Labs Bay Area Institute of Science | “Expect to be Surprised: the ESCRTs and Nuclear Envelope Homeostasis” | Dave Pagliarini |
| December 17, 2024 | “TBD” | “TBD” | “TBD” |